Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.

The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

What use are socks? They only produce holes.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.